no audio - but only when running as root

[billybob]

Hi, running dolphin on recent commit (dolphin-git AUR package). I can't seem to get audio to work, I tried every audio backend with the default today and a few different DSP-* options (but not every one) to no avail. Running in the terminal provides no relevant information while running AFAICT:
➜ sudo dolphin-emu
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root'
/usr/bin/xdg-screensaver: line 852: dcop: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-screensaver: line 857: dcop: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-screensaver: line 852: dcop: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-screensaver: line 857: dcop: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-screensaver: line 852: dcop: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-screensaver: line 857: dcop: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-screensaver: line 852: dcop: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-screensaver: line 857: dcop: command not found

I noticed that one time I forgot sudo and didn't notice that until I got into a game, and when I did I was surprised to ~~see~~ hear sound working! I'm not quite sure where to even start with troubleshooting here. Dolphin does not even show up in the KDE Volume mixer applications tab when run as root, but does when not run as root. Any ideas? Or is this more of an linux question that dolphin?

[KHg8m3r]

Any reason you have to run Dolphin as root?